Leica Sightings

I could just work off the Leica Spotting FAQ
and make this a huge post of screen captures, but that wouldn’t be
very much fun! Instead this post is going to be a bit shorter as
I’m only using sightings which aren’t on that list, and that I’ve
come across without any prior knowledge.

Coraline (2009)

When you go to a fantasy stop motion movie with a Leica M3 slung
over your shoulder, the last thing you’d expect to see is an
anatomically correct version of your camera looking back at you
right? That’s what I thought! That belief was snuffed forever durng
the scene where Wybie asks Coraline to take his photo, and then
hands her his camera.

I’m tempted to shake my finger at the movie for making a flash
go off every time the camera is used, but I won’t. I’m letting that
one slide for one simple reason—the frame lines look completely
accurate during the through the viewfinder scenes. It is
rare enough for viewfinders to be accurate in non-stop motion
movies where the actual camera is on set.

Coraline also makes me wonder something. Knowing that a
miniaturized replica M3 exists somewhere out in the world, would a
collector purchase it for more then the cost of a mint condition
M3?

The Stuff (1985)

The Stuff is probably the worst movie to ever have a
Leica in it. At the same time, it also has one of the best
depictions of using a Leica in a movie that I’ve seen. The way in
which Michael Moriarty uses his black Leica in The Stuff
very much like how I use mine when I’m on the streets. He does a
lot of fiddling with the focus & exposure settings while it the
camera is at chest level followed by quickly bringing it up to the
eye to shoot.

Then there is this following encounter.

Holy Balls! Did you see that? Actual cinematic proof to the
rumor that a black Leica is invisible! The factory worker saw the
camera, but was still completely oblivious to it being used to take
his photo.

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Season 1 & 2

The first two seasons of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! show
Penn using a Leica camera during the title sequence. Sadly, by the
fourth season he has replaced it with a digital point & shoot.
Bullshit!

Until Dawn (2015)

Hey! The first video game entry on this short list.

One of the collectable items found in the PS4 exclusive game
Until Dawn is an old busted up
camera. Although a slight amount of photoshopping appears to have
been done to knobs, it seems definitely modelled after a Leica
III model of camera.

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Brie Larson is seen using an old Leica M fitted with a googled
f/3.5 35mm Summaron lens.